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	                                                                     				      HOUSE AT ARSENAL
                                                                      		is a pure shaft from a to joint b  6 " 2 high, and half
                                                                      way up, 3 " 6 in circumference.  Fig 4 is the capital with
                                                                      transverse sections.  fig 5 the shape of wood bracket
	The cable belongs to same figure:  Above it, the beam is             carried by the capital:
	painted with a richly coloured light course leaf pattern.            On one side of the little court i.e. above the pillar in
                                                                      the wall carried by woodwork fig 5 is a detached 5th with
                                                                      the musically trefoiled cusp and c3 section but with the
                                                                      rare C headed pils   On the side where staircase
                                                                      terminates - a pair of 5ths of the same kind with a c2
                                                                      carefully drawn except dentil at fig 6 the chamfer
                                                                      roll peculiarly bold - the dentil shallow - is (a little
                                                                      too deep in drawing)  The chanfer as usual - thus con-
                                                                      structed                      the largest semicircle that
                                                                      will go into the               This pair of windows has a
                                                                      fine early R.A.shaft: standing without a base on a C Plinth
                                                                      and B P pils.
                                                                      The stair itself is carried on 3 increasing round arches
                                                                      with the large bold and c section of archivolt and on
                                                                      (I think restored) A p pils with double filleted abacus


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[Version 0.05: May 2008]